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Subnormality #100

December 15, 2008

Together at last. And the comic is done at last. My apologies for the delay, I got a little sick and then i lost confidence in my ability to draw which i guess is my punishment for making a hundred of these damn things. The universe frowns on me and my huge walls of text. But it’s done now, anyway, so…uh…yeah, there you go.

THANKS

So that is indeed a century of crazy comix, and i would be lying if i said i was expecting to make it this far. After the first year of the comic i’d gotten like one email and i was all like “fuck this, i’m gonna quit,” but then things kind of picked up shortly after so here i remain. A big thanks to everyone who’s Dugg the comix, or Stumbled Upon them, or seen one elsewhere and Reddit and enjoyed it. Word of mouth is the only advertising that means anything, so i’m glad people have felt the comix are worth telling others about. Thanks also to everyone who’s written in or left comments. There’s been some really nice emails and comments lately, and it’s just super-encouraging and such, so, y’know, much appreciated. Hey, i might even make another 100 of these stupid things. I might even make a Mega Surprise Announcement in the near future, though things are too tentative right now to get into details. Let’s just summarize: really fuckin’ glad the comix have been so well-received, and thanks for reading! I’ll be back next week.

Stay Beautiful,

WR

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82 Responses to “Subnormality #100”

A poignant and surprisingly non-violent interaction between our two favourite recurring characters. Nice. Well, considering everyone in Subnormalityland apparently lives in the same town (except the Nazis from your historical strips), they were bound to meet sooner or later.

Also, poor Brown, I mean Pink, Hair (I like to believe her hair is still pink inside…awww).

Every week there’s self-deprecation about huge walls of text, but I like them and would miss them if they went away. Nothing wrong with little comics and quick punchlines exactly, but there are plenty of places where one can find them, and not many places where one can find a good rant about latin and sonofabitch airplanes.

Man, huge walls of text are part of what makes this comic what it is! ^_^ You make them work, beautifully. You know, all the rules, like not making huge walls of text, are generally helpful, but every once in a while you have someone come along who makes something that breaks the rules, and just does it in a perfect way that *works,* and at that point, sticking to rules is just pedantry. Awesome comic, and thank you for making a hundred of them! ^_^

^^ New reader here (Followed a link from cracked). just read all of the Sphynx ones. They are all made of win

^^ You know, Sphynx could be considered doing man kind a favour, cutting down our populations so that we don’t kill ourselves with overpopulation. As such, she should be allowed to fly anywhere she wants without rules

I wonder though… Would Sphynx be freaked out by a voreaphile? Basically, they are a person turned on by the idea of being eaten. So instead of running AWAY from Sphynx to avoid being eaten, they may be running TO Sphynx, horny as hell

I like that she’s at least Pinking in some way still — you couldn’t miss that coat, no matter how hard you might try.

And it’s cool hearing Sphynx’s take on her own behaviors. Sphynx has always been a strange and marvelous combination of outrageous, terrible (in the old sense of the word, “causing terror”), and astonishingly conventional. It’s really a part of her charm, us getting to discover how she mixes monster-ness with ordinary-ness in a new situation.

Thank you, Winston (or whatever your *real* name may be!), for all the time and effort you’ve put into SUBNORMALITY these 100 strips.

Dude, your post made me realize that I’ve been reading your comics for pretty much a lot of time, but never posted on your blog or anything. So here’s me, saying ‘hey’ from Romania, the butthole of Europe.

Please don’t quit YOUR COMICS ARE LIKE TOTALLY AWESOME AND ONE OF THE BEST BUTTONS ON THE BOOKMARKS TOOLBAR I LIKE TO CLICK ON!!1!

‘sketchy, half-assed mashup of previous languages’… as a linguist i couldn’t agree more ahaha, its like the most illogical language ever

my god, the weeks of waiting inbetween comics is like, killing me.

started reading around about when chapter 90 came out, spent a coupla hours and read the whole thing including sekfor 41 and all the others. should have rationed myself lol
i hope hope HOPE that your huge announcement involves getting these published, would make an incredible christmas present😀

Hehe, hilarious!
Funny how a being over 3400 years old and a 20-something girl can have so much in common, eh? Except for the killing.😉

Oh, and this sets up a nice opportunity… Pinky could become Sphynx little helper!
They seem to have some of the same attitudes, sort of, and Sphynx has complained about the lack of fingers and thumbs before.
I don’t think Pinky would object too much to employed by her.

It is also really funny to see history through a being that has lived it, and find it largely an inconvenience.
Sure put things in a rather different perspective.😉

She got that gig in the energy bar commercial (because she could imply without ever saying it that the energy bars had made her that way) but then she decided to make the ad accurate, and everyone was too scared to stop her. The funny thing is that the ad’s “honesty” might actually have sold them–you know, “there’s no such thing as negative publicity”.

Marvellous. One hundred! I love it, followed Cracked.com link here and have been eagerly devouring the wonderful walls of text for the last two weeks. Please keep it up, there is so much talent in these comics!!

Well done, it kind of reminds me of the work R.Crum’s brother did before the text took over his output and he did nothing but page after page of cramed togather text.
But I am shure you wont fall into that trap you seem to have A great grasp of the off the wall wacky fun stuff.
😉 🙂 {*v*} 😛 😀

You know, Subnormality quickly made it’s way into my list of “sacred comics”, basically the ones that are so good they actually affect me on a deep level. I rank you up there with xkcd, Dresden Codak, Copper, and Nine Planets w/o Intelligent Life. Keep up the good work, man.

Also, I love Ex-Pink-Haired Girl’s rant about her hair color and having to work so hard just so she can get back to where she started. Isn’t that just a perfect model of life?

We spend our youth playing and doing mostly what we feel like, but then we grow up and we have to work ourselves to the bone so that we can hopefully become a member of the idle rich and spend our days playing and doing mostly what we feel like.

I really enjoy reading your comic every Monday since one year ago, congratulations about the number and about the comix, ¡felicidades!, and I hope the color shirts for Europe will be soon available, I´m curious about if someone recognize it over here.

Michael Said:
“We spend our youth playing and doing mostly what we feel like, but then we grow up and we have to work ourselves to the bone so that we can hopefully become a member of the idle rich and spend our days playing and doing mostly what we feel like.”

I disagree: it is not true for everybody. For many people “work” and “doing what you feel like” are one and the same.
For me work is the mean trough which one realizes oneself.

Ok, that’s not always the case but let’s just not generalize so quickly.🙂

The writing in this comic is great, so keep up the wall of text! I’ve recently stumbled upon this comic (via Digg I think), and so far I love it. I love how you freely change the layout to work with the comic (like most recently, #99). Keep it up, you’ve got great talent!

I read that you lost confidence in your ability to draw, which, to me, is a complete surprise.
I´ve got this test-job thingie, where I have to illustrate a math-book for sixth-graders, and I am in total lack of inspiration. So I surf the web for inspiration, where I come across your beautiful strip, and I´m flabbergasted at the level of your work, both the humor and style.
Though, admitted, a little insecurity about your work is only healthy and helps keep the standard, but I would give a lot to have your talent.
Kudos to you!

Am I the only one who would actually be cool about the killing? I mean, she’s just like any other creature on the planet, she has to survive on the deaths of other living things. Personally, I’d be a cool neighbor to the Sphinx, I’d mow her lawn, manipulate fine objecs for her, and all I’d ask in return is that out of the 6 billion or so people on the earth she not eat the hundred or so people I care about. Hey, maybe my family could become like, a lineage of Sphinx assistants, one of each generation having the honor to serve the sphinx, to safeguard her while she sleeps, to petition for her right to flight, to press play on the remote, and go into buildings with small doors for her.

look, you’re a good artist, and your jokes are good, but there’s TOO MUCH TEXT. Seriously, your jokes would be like ten times funnier if you kept them short and concise. Don’t mean to insult you, just trying offer some helpful criticism

Jordan is wrong. Your use of text makes your work more original than most by breaking expectations, and your bold use of line well balances the “wall” effect with vibrant imagery. The jokes are funnier with the additional details, like Dennis Miller was before he turned to Evil.

Lucid, while I’m sure the Sphynx would appreciate those things, there will always be someone willing to do them for free (a.k.a. no prohibited meals), so it wouldn’t work. It’s just selfish to only prevent the deaths of people you care about, and let her kill anyone else.

I would have to agree with Yamara that the large amount of text in your comics furthers originality, and should be looked upon with an open mind rather than a preconcieved notion of how a comic should be. I will admit that the first couple of comics of yours i read i thought, “Hmm, seems like a little too much text here for a simple comic to me.” But thats just it. It’s not simple. It’s insightful, honest, witty, complex, and most definatly humurous. You should be proud of your work!

Oh, and about the artwork… I think every artist doubts themselves at some point, and that doubt drives them to become better artist. In my opinion an artist whom does not doubt their work at least a little at some point in their career, is going to become uninspired, and never find it in themselves to create something better.

However, all i can do as the reader is tell you that i thought the artwork was fantastic, and that you should only stop doing this when its no longer giving you kicks, because i think this comic is golden!

I love how the Sphynx, who normally terrifies everyone without trying, only gets a brief reaction of surprise out of Pinkhair. She’s just gotten accustomed to weird random junk happening around her, and meeting oddities.